Publisher, Simon & Schuster Audioworks (September 2006)

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A selection of unabridged stories from the bestselling author of Goodnight Nobody

Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a moving portrait of men's fears about commitment and love, Weiner's stories explore those transformative moments in our every day.

We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one Friday night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy not taken. We stumble on Good in Bed's Bruce Guberman, liquored-up and ready for anything on the night of his best friend's bachelor party, until stealing his girlfriend's tiny rat terrier becomes more complicated than he'd planned. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved New York City apartment in the hope of winning her broker's heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very different new mothers, and the choices that bring them together -- and pull them apart.

The Guy Not Taken demonstrates Weiner's amazing ability to create characters who "feel like they could be your best friend" (Janet Maslin) and to find hope and humor, longing and love in the hidden corners of our common experiences.

About the Author: Jennifer Weiner made her debut with Good in Bed in 2001. Her second book, In Her Shoes, is now a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine. Little Earthquakes, published in 2004, has been optioned by Universal Pictures. Goodnight Nobody is her fourth novel and first mystery. Jen graduated from Princeton University and worked as a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer; the newspaper to which she still occasionally contributes. Her work has also appeared in Glamour, Seventeen, Redbook, TV Guide, YM, and Salon.com. Jennifer grew up in Connecticut and now lives in Philadelphia with her family.